Author of quotes: Ernesto Sabato

At night we are always stronger than during the day when you need to act.

If good always prevails, why would they preach? Whether a person is naturally inclined to commit evil, why would he want to prohibit something, condemn it, and so on? Mind you, the most sublime of religions preach goodness. Moreover, they give the commandments require not to commit adultery, not to kill, not to steal. All this we must teach the commandments. And the power of evil is so huge and cunning that is used even for appeals to the good: if we fail to do so-and-so, we are threatened with hell.

Fate can not long to do a thorough selection of the people which should serve the instrument. For example, if you're really in a hurry to arrive somewhere on time, if it's a matter of life or death, you're not going to look at the fact that taxi green trim, or that the horse is ugly tail. Grab the first thing that comes to hand. Because Fate usually are not completely clear, but rather ambiguous: she knows what he wants, but people engaged in it, not hurt it you know. Kind of stupid subordinates who will never fulfill the exact order of the authorities. So Destiny has to act according to the principle Sarmiento*: to do their job, albeit badly, but still to do. And often she feels you need your workers to intoxicate or to confuse.

Destiny is not abstract and sometimes it is the knife of the slave, and sometimes a smile unmarried women. Fate chooses your weapon, embodied, and here you are, if you please.

My head is like a dark labyrinth. Sometimes flashes momentarily illuminate the corridors. I was never clear why I do certain things.

Vanity hides in the most unlikely places: it coexists with kindness, selflessness, generosity.

Another thing - vanity: no one suffers from lack of vanity - the most important engine of Human Progress. I laugh at seniors, touches of modesty Einstein and others like him, it's easy to be humble when you're famous, or rather, to seem modest.

The world is ugly - that's the truth, you do not need to prove. Enough just one example: in the concentration camp a former pianist complained of hunger, and then he was forced to eat rat, and alive.

If a man is born to do or say something original, then reading it will not ruin.

... always afraid to look at a man who is sure that he is completely alone - there's then something tragic, almost sacred, and yet terrible, shameful.

Over the years I have noticed that other people as would serve only as a bridge for the other two, between which then establishes a deep and lasting friendship - kind of flimsy, temporary bridge, which the military unit is moving across the chasm, and crossing to the other side, removes.

If I were a painter-abstractionist, I, too, could play the chicken by triangle multiple places, but the chicken broth will cook.